Visual study of aesthetic experience: Toward sociology of subjectivity

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25380659
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Sociology
• Research Institution: Hitotsubashi University
• Principal Investigator: YASUKAWA Hajime 一橋大学, 大学院社会学研究科, 教授 (00200501)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: ヴィジュアル・スタディ / ヴィジュアル・メソッド / ヴィジュアル／ナラティヴ・データベース / フォト・ヴォイス / フォト・エスノグラフィ / 美術館来館者 / 美的経験 / 状況分析

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study's goal is a sociological description of the experiences of museum visitors, using the visual methods. The tasks are, (1) development of visual research tools, (2) carrying out visitors' research at the fine art museum and constructing visual-narrative research database, and (3) sociological description of aesthetic experiences of visitiors'. Task (1) and (2) have been completed. That is, two database-type research tools (photo-voice and photo-ethnography), which activate the experiences of visitors, were developed, two visitors' researches were carried out, and visual-narrative databases were constructed with visitors' photos and narratives. Task (3), however, has not been completed. A formation of analytical framework was attempted, through grounded theory approach and situational analysis, but was imcomplete.

Free Research Field

視覚社会学、理論社会学、社会心理学